Australian Arts Tours

Calling all art, design and design technology students interested in effecting positive change to the lives of others. Take part in a creative Real World Design Challenge that provokes and addresses the way we see and use our environments.

Embark on a day of colour, artistry and development, with this ground-breaking incursion in designing and painting for aged care facilities. Use artistic expression and design thinking to overcome challenges aged care facilities face when creating spaces that promote wellbeing while simultaneously promoting safe behaviours.

THE BRIEF: DOOR DISGUISE

A door disguise has many functions. It can be designed for beauty, but its main function is to keep the elderly safe from harm. In your teams, design and present your concept for a door disguise to be used in an aged care facility.

During the program:

• Be inspired by a professional artist using her skill for significant social impact
• Discover the power of colour, shape perception, luminescence and contrast
• Learn about problems Aged Care Homes face with Dementia citizens
• Learn how murals can dramatically impact dementia citizen behaviours
• Hear about the various design phases required to create remarkable murals
• Create a concept for a mural to be used in an aged care facility

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.

Enter stage left on this interactive tour of the theatrical world. Designed for the budding thespian, musical theatre performer or stage technician, this tour delves into the creative world of theatre. Take your students on an exciting program that uncovers the processes involved in taking a performance from page to stage. Go behind the curtain to investigate all aspects of the production process, from programming and design presentations, to set and costume creation and bump-in. Explore the rehearsal process with leading arts practitioners and learn to create extraordinary stories and performances that get to the heart of human experience.

Tour Highlights:

• Go behind the scenes and gain a deeper understanding of stage management through the roles of lighting, sound and technical effects for production
• Create inventive performances that examine the human experience at leading theatre companies throughout Melbourne
• Learn the principles of set and costume design and work to create a costume design pitch to present to a panel and peers
• Create inventive performances that examine the human experience at leading theatre companies
• Explore physical theatre approaches to creating highly theatrical and non-naturalistic characters

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.

Example Itinerary for : DANCE, DRAMA, MUSIC-VOCAL, MUSIC-INSTRUMENTAL, VISUAL ARTS, MEDIA ARTS & VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

Engage your students from across the Arts with a custom designed, highly immersive and experiential tour.  Our unique tour program facilitates the development of practical and theoretical skills by providing students with the opportunity to work with experienced professionals in their chosen subject/genre. From backstage tours to performances with the most prestigious musical academies in Australia or engaging with renowned creatives, students are encouraged to investigate the use of different art forms to develop and communicate their own creative expression.

Tour Highlights:

• Experiment with song compositions and discover a range of song writing and arranging techniques in a music production and composition workshop
• Engage with some of the best instructors and choreographers in the industry and explore the fundamentals of movement and expression in different dynamic dance styles
• What is stage presence? Learn how to bring a performance to life in a skill-based stage workshop
• Explore Australian Indigenous culture through Dance, Music and Art with First Nations’ artists
• Learn the principles of set and costume design and work to create a costume design pitch to present to a panel and peers
• Go behind the scenes and gain a deeper understanding of stage management through the roles of lighting, sound and technical effects for production
• Play alongside highly-renowned musicians and develop instrumental techniques in a musical masterclass
• Develop practical skills and theoretical knowledge in drawing, printmaking, painting, photography and sculpting in a studio practical workshop

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.

Take your students on a musical journey filled with soaring crescendos and sinking diminuendos on an experiential music tour within Australia filled with harmony and melody. Learn from the best that Australia has to offer. The opportunity to play alongside highly renowned musicians, engage with Indigenous culture through music and storytelling and develop students’ stage presence are amongst some of the interactive activities on offer during this experiential journey. Whether your students are budding composers, musicians, the next big voice, this tour has much to engage, excite and inspire!

Tour Highlights:

• Develop instrumental or vocal techniques with well known musicians and vocal coaches during custom designed masterclasses
• Learn how to bring performances to life in a skill-based stage workshop
• Experiment with song compositions and discover a range of song writing and arranging techniques in a music production and composition workshop

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.

Are your students ready to take their art to the next level? Sketch, sculpt, paint or photograph your way through the art world on this experiential tour that explores the creative and business side of art. Meet with gallery directors and curators to understand what it takes to get an exhibition up and running. Collaborate and create art with leading artists that encourage your students to push the boundaries. Learn new techniques in art-making including delving into Indigenous art, graffiti, or sculpting using recycled materials. Whether your students are looking to improve their skills, learn new techniques or build their portfolio, this experience is sure to impress even the most fastidious artist.

Tour Highlights:

• • Go behind the scenes of leading galleries and studios to discover how exhibitions are put together
  • Delve into the artistic process with leading studio artists and practitioners
  • Discover the artistic voice in art making classes designed to push the boundaries

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.

Explore First Nation people’s connection to the land, sea, sky and waterways with an arts immersion tour designed for students to develop an awareness of and engage in alternative perspectives that underpin Indigenous culture and traditions. Investigate how the arts are fundamental to intergenerational knowledge systems and communicate stories of peoples past, present and future. Indigenous expression through traditional and contemporary art forms also serves as a medium to share perspectives and insights into the challenges to rights and freedoms experienced by Australia’s first people. Develop and deepen students cross cultural understanding while exploring their chosen art form. Understand the symbolically laden movement of traditional and modern dance approaches and participate in the art of storytelling at a yarning circle.  This tour will deepen your students’ connection to Indigenous culture and histories.

Tour Highlights:

• • • Discover the local meaning behind a Moeity (or kinship) symbols in a hands-on painting workshop
    • Meet indigenous artists and hear how Dreaming is expressed through various art medium
    • Examine ancient Aboriginal rock art and hand stencils in an immersive rock art tour
    • Listen to contemporary First Nation’s artists to understand how their art communicates themes of dispossession, reconciliation and the Uluru Statement of the Heart.
    • Create traditional dot paintings with a local Aboriginal artist
    • Understand the role of flora and fauna in Indigenous art and the relationship to food systems and land management
    • Unearth the traditional maps and songlines that exist within some First Nations art

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.

Choreographers, take your students on an interactive tour that explores the world of dance. Dance with some of Australia’s leading choreographers and dance companies, explore the audition process and express yourselves in a variety of dance styles.

During a series of engaging workshops, students establish correct alignment through both movement and stillness, develop awareness of their centre of gravity and take a grounded and fluid approach to movement sequences. Whether its hip-hop, contemporary, ballet or jazz, or another form, this tour provides the necessary tools to develop poise and confidence in dance.

Tour Highlights:

• • Engage with some of the best instructors and choreographers in the industry and explore the fundamentals of movement and expression in different dynamic dance styles
  • Redefine audience’s perception of contemporary dance in a genre defying workshop with a leading contemporary dance company
  • Explore storytelling through Indigenous contemporary dance and increase knowledge about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.

The Design Brief: Develop students understanding and capabilities in producing designed solutions for a variety of needs and opportunities.

Take your students through the design thinking process on this interactive tour that explores problem solving and designed solutions for products, services  and environments. Students develop the iterative, technical and project management skills involved in design through a range of experiential learning opportunities. Explore financial and ethical constraints that designers face when creating solutions and learn their project-management cycle. Whether it is designing for a real-world challenge in a customised design boot camp, collaborating with leading designers to solve design problems or developing technical drawing, computational design or 3D design skills, budding designers, innovators and entrepreneurs gain the full design experience.

Tour Highlights:

• • Find a solution to a design brief during a custom-designed real-world design boot camp
  • Collaborate with designers during masterclasses
  • Explore project management of large design and infrastructure projects

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.

Sensationalism? Misinformation? Fake News? It has never been more important than to have the skills to critically evaluate media and media sources. On this experiential tour, students are immersed in the different worlds of media, from print to social to visual media. Students explore the difference between information sharing and sensationalism, propaganda to accurate portrayal of the world. Whether its building on skills to create impactful content, exploring media manipulation and ethics or exploring the distribution processes, this tour offers students to take a deep dive into media, its processes and distribution channels.

Tour Highlights:

• • Explore the latest in creative technologies with world leading experts in VR, AR, AI, 360 and interactive projects.
  • Create a special one-off radio broadcast and showcase your work live to air
  • Explore behind the scenes of a live taping
  • Make your own short film, with some students acting and others taking the role of director, lighting or one of the other important roles in making a film
  • Join the power of the Yarning circle led by Indigenous storytellers

This program can be tailored to your individual needs. Please contact us for further information.